US10502527B2 - Real-time ballistic solutions for calculating an aiming adjustment and for indicating a subsonic threshold - Google Patents

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US10502527B2 US15/544,848 US201615544848A US10502527B2 US 10502527 B2 US10502527 B2 US 10502527B2 US 201615544848 A US201615544848 A US 201615544848A US 10502527 B2 US10502527 B2 US 10502527B2
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  • This disclosure relates generally to techniques for computing ballistic solutions in real time and, more particularly, to optical sighting devices implementing such techniques.
  • a bullet or other projectile traverses a curved trajectory as it falls and decelerates while traveling from a point at which it departs a weapon to a point of impact (i.e., a target location). Due to its curved trajectory, the projectile will intersect an aiming line of sight at one or two ranges and pass below or above it at other ranges.
  • a sight-in range (so-called zero range, zeroed-in range, or true zero) of the weapon and sight combination is the range at which a line of sight intersects a projectile's curved trajectory at a known horizontal reference distance, such as 200 yards or meters, so that projectiles shot from the weapon impact a target at the reference distance coinciding with a reference aiming point of crosshairs or another aiming mark of a riflescope (or other sighting device).
  • the aforementioned trajectory and the projectile's position thereon depend on ballistic characteristics, such as projectile weight, drag, and initial velocity (e.g., muzzle velocity), and on other factors characterized by exterior point mass ballistics.
  • exterior point mass ballistics or simply exterior ballistics, are well understood and have been expressed in mathematical terms in scientific literature. See, for example, E. J. McShane et al., “Exterior Ballistics,” University of Denver Press (1953); Bryan Litz, “Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting,” Applied Ballistics, LLC, 2nd edition (2011); and R. L. McCoy, “Modern Exterior Ballistics,” Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2nd edition (2012), all of which are incorporated herein by reference as background information.
  • exterior ballistics equations may be used for calculating a projectile's position along its curved trajectory.
  • Ballistics software typically includes a library of ballistic coefficients and muzzle velocities for a variety of particular cartridges (also called an ammunition load, or simply, load). A user selects from the library an ammunition type, which serves as an input for ballistic calculations performed by the software.
  • the ballistics software also allows a user to input target conditions, such as the elevation angle from level shooting and the range to the target; environmental conditions, including geospatial and meteorological conditions; and weapon configuration conditions such as sight height and zero range. Based on the user input, ballistics software applications may then calculate and provide as output various ballistics trajectory parameters.
  • a calculated ballistics trajectory parameter may define a calculated trajectory in terms of projectile drop amounts that are the vertical component from a line of departure (e.g., a bore centerline) to points along the calculated trajectory, projectile path amounts at trajectory points perpendicular to a line of sight, or other ballistics trajectory parameters used to make an aiming adjustment in order to hit a target at a given range.
  • Aiming adjustments are designated in terms of inches or centimeters at the target range.
  • Another way to designate vertical aiming adjustment is in terms of minutes of angle (MOA).
  • MOA minutes of angle
  • ballistic software may output as ballistic solutions aiming adjustment amounts (i.e., projectile drop or path) in terms of MOA or distance (height in inches).
  • the ballistic solution may include vertical aiming adjustments and horizontal aiming adjustments.
  • the vertical aiming adjustments also called elevation adjustments, are typically established by holdover and holdunder adjustments (also referred to as come-up and come-down adjustments) or mechanical elevation adjustment to a riflescope or other aiming device (relative to the weapon on which the aiming device is mounted).
  • holdover and holdunder adjustments also referred to as come-up and come-down adjustments
  • mechanical elevation adjustment to a riflescope or other aiming device (relative to the weapon on which the aiming device is mounted).
  • horizontal aiming adjustments are made by aiming to the left or right, or by mechanical adjustments, and are commonly referred to as windage adjustments.
  • Some ballistic software programs have been adapted to operate on a handheld computer.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 6,516,699 of Sammut et al. describes a personal digital assistant (PDA) running an exterior ballistics software program.
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • Other ballistic software programs are deployed in laser rangefinder binoculars and projectile-weapon aiming systems rigidly affixed to a weapon and commonly embodied as a riflescope.
  • Riflescopes include reticles for aiming at locations indicated by a reticle aiming mark.
  • a reticle aiming mark defines an aiming point at which a straight aiming line of sight intersects at a discrete distance a bullet's or other projectile's curved trajectory.
  • the first subsection describes techniques for determining an aiming adjustment amount (referred to simply as an aiming adjustment), both vertical and horizontal adjustment amounts, to shoot a target at a target range by iteratively solving for the projectile trajectory (e.g., projectile drop or path and deflection) such that the iteratively calculated projectile trajectory is determined to pass through the target location within a predetermined threshold amount (e.g., at a projectile path calculation of about zero).
  • the second subsection describes techniques for indicating whether a projectile has supersonic, transonic, or subsonic speed at a given range.
  • the third subsection describes a real-time ballistic system (RTBS) that allows a shooter to obtain ballistic solutions with multiple bullet weights without re-sight-in (re-zero).
  • RTBS real-time ballistic system
  • This feature allows a shooter having a rangefinder, range-finding riflescope, or spotting scope with the feature to readily obtain optimum elevation and windage adjustments for a first ammunition that are relative to ballistic calculations obtained from a first ammunition information (e.g., bullet weight) used during a sight-in (zero) process.
  • a first ammunition information e.g., bullet weight
  • FIG. 1 is a bullet trajectory diagram showing a conventional model of a level-fire bullet trajectory, according to a prior art embodiment.
  • FIG. 2 is a bullet trajectory diagram showing a calculated 20° inclined-fire bullet trajectory, and showing in a right-side fragmentary detail a bullet path MOA calculation of ⁇ 50.0 MOA as measured from a target positioned at a 1,300-yard line-of-sight range.
  • FIG. 3 is a screen image capture of a real-time ballistics system software user interface including an output display section tab entitled “Drop Table” that is presenting ballistic calculations output in a drop table (also called a trajectory table) having table rows of 50-yard increments representing in numeric form from 1,000 to 1,500 yards the calculated 20° inclined-fire bullet trajectory of FIG. 2 , the rows having background colors indicating ranges at which a bullet would have transonic or subsonic speed.
  • a drop table also called a trajectory table
  • FIG. 4 is a bullet trajectory diagram showing in dashed lines an adjusted bullet trajectory that is a recalculated version of the bullet trajectory of FIG. 2 , after incorporating a 50.0 MOA conventional elevation aiming adjustment for compensating for the bullet path MOA calculation of FIGS. 2 and 3 , and showing in a right-side fragmentary detail that a bullet actually fired according to the conventional elevation aiming adjustment would undershoot the target positioned at the 1,300-yard range.
  • FIG. 5 is a screen image capture of the real-time ballistics system software user interface of FIG. 3 , showing the recalculated version of the bullet trajectory of FIG. 2 in the form of a drop table, in which the drop table shows a calculated (i.e., virtual) overshoot expressed as a bullet path MOA calculation of 0.3 MOA (3.74 inches).
  • FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a method for a ballistics calculator to determine an aiming elevation adjustment amount for shooting a target at range by iterating a calculated ballistics solution elevation adjustment until a bullet path calculation is less than a desired threshold at the range.
  • FIG. 7 is a bullet trajectory diagram showing in dashed lines an adjusted bullet trajectory established by aiming with a 49.72 MOA elevation adjustment amount obtained using the iterative method of FIG. 6 such that a projectile is shown hitting the target at the range of 1,300 yards.
  • FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a method for a ballistics calculator to determine an aiming windage adjustment amount for shooting a target at range by iterating a calculated ballistics solution windage adjustment until a bullet deflection calculation is less than a desired threshold at the range.
  • FIG. 9 is a view of a reticle as viewed through an ocular (eyepiece) of a laser rangefinder embodiment, annotated to show elevation and windage aiming adjustments for the bullet trajectory of FIG. 7 .
  • FIG. 10 is a screen image capture of the real-time ballistics system software user interface of FIG. 3 showing a drop table and calculated ballistic solution for elevation and windage aiming adjustments used to establish the bullet trajectory of FIG. 7 .
  • FIG. 11 is a screen image capture of the real-time ballistics system software user interface including an output display section tab entitled “Bullet Path (Inches)” with contents in the form of a graph plotting a bullet path at given ranges and indicating ranges at which a bullet's calculated velocity is determined to produce transonic air speeds, and a range at which the bullet's calculated velocity is determined to transition to a subsonic air speed.
  • an output display section tab entitled “Bullet Path (Inches)” with contents in the form of a graph plotting a bullet path at given ranges and indicating ranges at which a bullet's calculated velocity is determined to produce transonic air speeds, and a range at which the bullet's calculated velocity is determined to transition to a subsonic air speed.
  • FIG. 12 is a screen image capture of the real-time ballistics system software user interface including an offset value entered as a sight-in condition.
  • this first section of the disclosure explains how the present inventors recognized that existing ballistics software inaccurately assumes that an aiming adjustment that should be applied at a given range is equivalent to the projectile path calculation at that range.
  • the present inventors surmised that this inaccurate assumption is premised on at least two sources of error.
  • aiming adjustment ignores the fact that an adjusted trajectory established by the aiming adjustment subjects a bullet traveling along that trajectory to gravitational and barometric effects that are different from those of a trajectory calibrated as passing through the true zero.
  • the adjusted trajectory will result in a trajectory that is different in length and angle from that of a baseline trajectory calibrated for (zeroed at) a preselected, true zero range.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show the example calculated 20° inclined-fire bullet trajectory in the forms of, respectively, a bullet trajectory diagram and a bullet drop table.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 depict the two sources of error noted in the previous paragraph, which would not be present in an actual measured trajectory represented by FIGS. 7 and 10 .
  • FIG. 2 shows a bullet trajectory diagram 30 that depicts a bullet 40 calculated as exiting from a weapon bore (not shown) along a line of departure 44 so as to travel along a calculated bullet trajectory 46 .
  • the a line of departure 44 is at the superelevation angle ⁇ and is inclined by a 20° incline angle 50 between a horizontal level line 52 and an incline target position line 54 extending through the 200-yard zero that is intersected by a line of sight 56 .
  • the bullet trajectory 46 is characterized by a bullet path calculation of ⁇ 50.0 MOA.
  • a 50.0 MOA aiming adjustment is not the correct aiming adjustment to apply for shooting because, as described in later examples, such an aiming adjustment produces a new trajectory having environmental effects that are not accounted for in the trajectory 46 . Ignoring the change in environmental effects results in the first source of error.
  • the second source of error is typically less pernicious in its effect on shooting accuracy. Still, for improved accuracy, suffice it to say that some embodiments also address this second source of error, which is summarized as follows. It is noted that the aforementioned calculations are based on the virtual line of sight 56 intersecting the 200-yard zero along the incline target position line 54 . But a target may not be (and frequently is not) located at the 200-yard zero. In fact, in the example of FIGS. 2 and 3 , the target 60 along the incline target position line 54 is located 1,300 yards away from the weapon. The ⁇ 50.0 MOA bullet path calculation, however, is not actually calculated from the target 60 because a bullet path parameter is, by definition, calculated relative to a line of sight.
  • the ⁇ 50.0 MOA is shown in FIG. 2 as being calculated relative to the virtual target location 62 along the virtual line of sight 56 .
  • the location 62 is actually 1.212 MOA below an actual location of the target 60 .
  • the superelevation angle ⁇ used in conventional ballistics calculators does not account for changes in an actual line of sight and bore position that occur when aiming at targets that are not located at the true zero.
  • An actual superelevation angle for a bullet hitting the target 60 at a range of 1,300 yards is a function of a difference of a zeroed sight-height depression angle 64 ( ⁇ SHZ ) and a target sight-height depression angle 66 ( ⁇ SHT ).
  • the zeroed sight-height depression angle ( ⁇ SHZ ) 64 is the angle between the incline target position line 54 and the line of sight 56 ;
  • the target sight-height depression angle ( ⁇ SHT ) 66 is the angle between the incline target position line 54 and an actual line of sight 68 to the target 60 .
  • FIG. 3 also shows the aforementioned bullet trajectory information, but in the numeric form of a bullet drop table presented in a screen image capture 70 of a real-time ballistics system software user interface 74 .
  • the input menus of the user interface 74 are explained in the following paragraphs, which are followed by a discussion of the ballistic calculations output, produced by the software, based on ballistics calculation input parameters entered into the input menus.
  • the user interface 74 has six drop-down combo box menus including a Bullet Manufacturer menu 80 , a Bullet Caliber menu 82 , and a Bullet Description menu 86 showing that the type of the bullet 40 ( FIG. 2 ) is a .338 Lapua full metal jacket boat tail (FMJBT) available from Nammo Lapua Oy of Raufoss, Norway.
  • these drop-down combo box menus can be modified by a user so as to select another predefined ammunition type or to develop a custom ammunition type.
  • Other drop-down combo box menus include a Units menu 94 to select English or metric units, a Zero Range menu 98 to select the true zero, and a Range Increment menu 106 to select the distance between rows of a drop table 108 .
  • the user interface 74 includes several so-called spinner menus used to allow a user to input weapon configuration values and then increment or decrement the values.
  • spinner menus include a Muzzle Velocity menu 112 , a Sight Height menu 114 , and a Maximum Range menu 116 that defines a limit to the number of rows presented in the drop table 108 .
  • Another set of spinner menus 120 is shown in a menu tab 122 entitled “Target Conditions.” These spinner menus 120 include menus to configure the ballistics calculator algorithms with additional input data characterizing conditions at the target location. Identical spinner menus ( FIG. 12 ) are available for characterizing “Sight-In Conditions” at the sight-in location.
  • the spinner menus 120 include an Altitude menu 124 , a Pressure menu 128 to configure the barometric pressure, a Temperature menu 132 , a Humidity menu 136 , a Wind (horizontal) Direction menu 146 that allows a user to enter in degrees a horizontal direction of wind, a Horizontal Wind Velocity menu 148 for the speed of the horizontal wind, a Vertical Wind Velocity menu 154 for positive (updraft) or negative (downdraft) value of vertical wind speed, and an Incline Angle menu 160 showing that a user has input the value of the 20° incline angle 50 ( FIG. 2 ) discussed previously.
  • the user interface 74 also has five checkbox menus.
  • a Use G7 Standard checkbox 170 allows a user to select whether the ballistics calculations are based on a G7 ballistic coefficient model or a predecessor model.
  • An Include Spin Drift checkbox 172 and Include Coriolis Effect checkbox 174 allow a user to select whether spin drift and coriolis effects are included as factors in the ballistics calculations.
  • An Actual Adjustment checkbox 180 allows a user to input horizontal and vertical aiming adjustments that were already intended to be made. For example, as explained later with reference to FIG. 5 , the checkbox 180 may be used whenever a user has deployed preexisting (i.e., mechanical) riflescope adjustments for windage and elevation.
  • a Calculate Ballistic Solution checkbox 182 allows a user to select whether the ballistics calculations also provide as an output a ballistic solution aiming adjustment that the user can then use to adjust his or her aim and hit a target at a predetermined range.
  • the output 190 of a Drop Table menu tab 192 may simply update automatically anytime a change is made to any input, i.e., without having the user actuate the Update button 186 .
  • This automatic update feature is also applicable to other ballistics calculator embodiments, such as, for example, a rangefinder that includes a computing device for automatically calculating ballistics solutions in response to dynamic ranging measurements or varying environmental and target measurement inputs.
  • such automatic updates of ballistics solutions are also referred to as real-time ballistics solutions.
  • the ballistics calculations output 190 shows in numeric form the bullet trajectory 46 of FIG. 2 .
  • a Bullet Path calculation is ⁇ 681.07 inches or ⁇ 50.0 MOA
  • a Bullet Drop calculation is ⁇ 825.49 inches
  • a Deflection calculation is ⁇ 132.34 inches or ⁇ 9.7 MOA
  • a Velocity calculation is 1,178.5 feet per second (ft/sec)
  • an Energy calculation is 770.3 foot-pounds (ft-lbs)
  • a Time (of flight) calculation is 2.3214 seconds.
  • Data of the drop table 108 can be exported to a file by checking checkbox 198 .
  • an Adjustments radio button menu set 210 is also included as a component of the user interface 74 .
  • the menu set 210 allows a user to select whether iteratively calculated ballistics solutions are output in terms of MOA or MIL. These solutions are not shown in FIG. 3 because the checkbox 182 is not checked. Therefore, a discussion of these solutions is provided later in this disclosure with reference to FIG. 10 .
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 depict an example of how ballistics calculators are used to develop a conventional aiming adjustment.
  • a user would typically holdover or make a mechanical elevation adjustment of 50.0 MOA.
  • Such an adjustment effectively presumes that an adjusted bullet trajectory still passes through the true zero (more precisely, the true zero along a slant range for inclined shots), which perforce ignores the fact that the adjustment establishes a new, adjusted bullet trajectory. This assumption does not account for environmental and gravitational effects imparted on a bullet traveling along the adjusted bullet trajectory.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 show the prophetic results of a conventional adjustment, as depicted in the forms of, respectively, a bullet trajectory diagram and a bullet drop table.
  • FIG. 4 shows a bullet trajectory diagram 230 including, in dashed lines, an adjusted bullet trajectory 236 established by adjusting the angle of the line of departure 44 of FIG. 2 (shown in solid lines) by a 50.0 MOA elevation adjustment 240 so as to compensate for the ⁇ 50.0 MOA bullet path calculation of FIGS. 2 and 3 .
  • a right-side fragmentary detail also shows that the conventional aiming elevation adjustment causes a projectile 246 traveling along the adjusted bullet trajectory 236 to overshoot the virtual target 62 at the 1,300-yard range.
  • the exact calculations of the clear miss shown in FIG. 4 are set forth in a row 268 of FIG. 5 , explained as follows.
  • FIG. 5 is a screen image capture 248 of the real-time ballistics system software user interface 74 of FIG. 3 , but including user input 250 to the Actual Adjustment checkbox 180 .
  • Checking the Actual Adjustment checkbox 180 causes the user interface 74 to present two additional spinner menus.
  • An Elevation (MOA) menu 254 allows a user to input the 50.0 MOA elevation adjustment 240 ( FIG. 4 ), or other vertical aiming adjustment used for ballistics calculations.
  • a Windage (MOA) menu 258 allows a user to input a windage adjustment 260 , or other horizontal aiming adjustment. In the example shown in FIG.
  • the windage adjustment 260 entered into the Windage (MOA) menu 258 is 9.7 MOA, which is intended to compensate for the ⁇ 9.7 MOA Deflection calculation in the row 196 of FIG. 3 .
  • the user may actuate the Update button 186 to recalculate output 264 presented in a Drop Table menu tab 192 .
  • the output 264 shows that the calculated overshoot of FIG. 4 is 0.3 MOA (3.74 inches), as shown in the row 268 calculations of the bullet trajectory 236 passing by the virtual target 62 positioned at the 1,300-yard range.
  • the present inventors developed a method 280 shown in a flowchart in FIG. 6 .
  • the method 280 iterates a calculated ballistics solution elevation adjustment until a bullet path calculation is less than a desired threshold at the range.
  • Each iteration is analogous to an actual reference shot taken by a shooter in that the iterations model the application of real-world aiming adjustments that modify superelevation angle, produce a change in environmental effects, and, ultimately, change a projectile's trajectory.
  • a user or input device establishes the initial ballistic and target conditions, such as, for example, the ballistic and target inputs described previously with reference to FIG. 3 . These initial inputs are used to calculate an initial elevation adjustment amount (e.g., the aforementioned 50.0 MOA adjustment) and to initialize an iteratively adjusted superelevation angle ⁇ ADJ as being equal to the zeroed superelevation angle ⁇ . Additionally, the user or input device (e.g., a laser rangefinder) inputs a range to a target.
  • an initial elevation adjustment amount e.g., the aforementioned 50.0 MOA adjustment
  • ⁇ ADJ an iteratively adjusted superelevation angle
  • the user or input device e.g., a laser rangefinder inputs a range to a target.
  • the method 280 then proceeds to calculating 290 a bullet path for the desired range, according to the initial elevation adjustment.
  • FIG. 5 shows that the calculated bullet path at the 50.0 MOA adjustment is a 0.3 MOA overshoot.
  • the method 280 proceeds to determining 292 whether the absolute value of the bullet path is less than a predetermined threshold. For example, a user may seek to have less than a +/ ⁇ 0.01 MOA error in terms of overshoot or undershoot.
  • the method 280 proceeds to updating 294 the initial elevation adjustment.
  • the updating 294 includes setting an elevation adjustment as being equal to the current (e.g., initial) elevation adjustment minus the current bullet path calculation from the calculation 292 .
  • the updating 294 would result in the current elevation adjustment being 50.0 MOA minus 0.3 MOA, which is 49.7 MOA.
  • the Elevation (MOA) menu 254 of FIG. 5 may be manually or automatically updated to change from the 50.0 MOA adjustment amount to the 49.7 MOA adjustment amount, and the output 264 would be recalculated. Assuming it were recalculated, the new output would show a calculated bullet path that is slightly negative (i.e., an undershoot), but the absolute value of this negative value would be less than the absolute value of the initial 0.3 MOA overshoot. In other words, the first iteration would reduce error resulting from the initial elevation adjustment of 50.0 MOA.
  • Multiple passes of the bullet path iteration can be made so as to further reduce error to the point where it is below the desired +/ ⁇ 0.01 MOA error threshold. For example, once the iterative calculation of the bullet path converges toward zero, the bullet path may then be determined to be less than the predetermined threshold, at which point the method 280 proceeds to outputting 300 the iteratively calculated ballistic solution for the elevation adjustment, and the method 280 ends 302 .
  • a bullet trajectory diagram 310 of FIG. 7 shows one such output.
  • An iteratively calculated elevation adjustment 312 is now shown to be 49.72 MOA. Accordingly, a bullet trajectory 314 now passes through the target 60 .
  • the method 280 is an example iterative technique that reduces the value of the calculated bullet path until the value approaches zero. In other words, the iterative calculation effectively re-zeros the weapon so that the re-calculated zero point of the bullet trajectory falls upon the location of a target.
  • ballistics trajectory parameters that could also be used to achieve a similar result. Noting that bullet path is but one ballistics trajectory parameter, other ballistics trajectory parameters may be iteratively calculated to develop a ballistic solution comparable to that of the method 280 . For example, bullet drop could be iteratively calculated so that a change in the calculated ballistic drop between successive iterations is determined to be below a desired threshold amount.
  • the iteratively calculated ballistic drop may be used according to conventional ballistics and trigonometric calculations for converting the ballistic drop to a vertical aiming adjustment.
  • the phrase “iterative calculation of ballistic trajectories” means iterative calculation of any ballistics trajectory parameter defining a bullet's trajectory and used for purposes of developing an aiming adjustment.
  • an aiming adjustment generally refers to vertical aiming adjustments (e.g., elevation) and horizontal aiming adjustments (e.g., deflection).
  • FIG. 8 shows a method 320 for a ballistics calculator to determine an aiming windage adjustment amount for shooting a target at range by iterating a calculated ballistics solution windage adjustment until a bullet deflection calculation is less than a desired threshold at the range.
  • the method 320 is analogous to the method 280 , but instead of calculating for a parameter (i.e., bullet path or bullet drop) used to establish a vertical aiming adjustment amount, deflection is iteratively calculated by the method 320 to determine a horizontal aiming adjustment amount.
  • a parameter i.e., bullet path or bullet drop
  • a user or input device establishes the initial target and ballistic conditions, as described for the start 284 of the method 280 . These initial inputs are used to calculate an initial windage adjustment amount (e.g., 9.7 MOA to compensate for the ⁇ 9.7 MOA deflection calculation of FIG. 3 ). Additionally, the user or input device (e.g., a laser rangefinder) inputs a range to a target.
  • an initial windage adjustment amount e.g. 9.7 MOA to compensate for the ⁇ 9.7 MOA deflection calculation of FIG. 3 .
  • the user or input device e.g., a laser rangefinder inputs a range to a target.
  • the method 320 then proceeds to calculating 340 a bullet deflection for the desired range, according to the initial elevation adjustment.
  • FIG. 5 shows that the calculated bullet deflection at the 9.7 MOA adjustment would result in a ⁇ 0.21 inch miss to the side of the target.
  • the method 320 proceeds to determining 346 whether the absolute value of the bullet deflection is less than a predetermined threshold. For example, a user may seek to have less than a +/ ⁇ 0.01 inch error.
  • the method 320 proceeds to updating 348 the initial windage adjustment.
  • the updating 348 includes setting a windage adjustment as being equal to the current (e.g., initial) windage adjustment minus the current bullet deflection calculation from the calculation 340 .
  • the updating 348 would result in the current windage adjustment being 9.7 MOA, which is 132.34 inches, minus the ⁇ 0.21 inch miss.
  • the method 320 proceeds to recalculating 340 the bullet deflection at the new windage adjustment amount.
  • the Windage (MOA) menu 258 of FIG. 5 may be manually or automatically updated to change from the 9.7 MOA adjustment amount to the new windage adjustment amount, and the output 264 would be recomputed. Assuming it were recomputed, the new output would show a calculated bullet deflection that reduces the amount of the initial ⁇ 0.21 inch miss. In other words, the first iteration would reduce error resulting from the initial windage adjustment of 9.7 MOA. And, depending on the desired threshold, multiple iterations would produce an output horizontal aiming adjustment of 9.72 MOA for outputting 350 and ending 352 the method 320 .
  • FIG. 9 is a view of a rangefinder reticle 358 as viewed through an ocular (eyepiece) of a laser rangefinder embodiment, in which the reticle 358 is annotated to show an elevation aiming adjustment amount 360 and a windage aiming adjustment amount 364 determined according to, respectively, the method 280 and the method 320 .
  • the reticle 358 includes duplex-style vertical and horizontal crosshairs 366 .
  • a central crosshair aiming mark 368 provides an aiming point that indicates the location of a 200-yard true zero in a field of view 370 .
  • a user places the aiming mark 368 on a target 372 and presses a button (not shown) of the rangefinder to obtain a range measurement 374 to the target 372 .
  • the range measurement 374 of 1,300 yards is displayed above the crosshairs 366 .
  • Also displayed are an incline angle measurement 380 showing the 20° incline 50 of FIG. 2 , a wind measurement 382 of 10 miles per hour, and a wind direction flag 384 indicating the direction of the wind.
  • a ballistics calculator within the rangefinder may automatically perform the method 280 , the method 320 , or both methods (e.g., in parallel) to obtain ballistics solutions for the elevation aiming adjustment amount 360 and the windage aiming adjustment amount 364 .
  • the rangefinder presents in the field of view 370 a relatively small aiming mark 390 that may be placed on the target 372 (as depicted by a dashed-line displaced view 392 of the target 372 produced by moving the reticle 358 relative to the field of view 370 ) so that when a bullet is fired toward the target 372 at an aiming point defined by the aiming mark 390 , the bullet would travel along the trajectory 314 (see, e.g., FIG. 7 ) calculated by the ballistics calculator to intersect the target 372 at the measured range of 1,300 yards.
  • the position of the aiming mark 390 may be dynamically moved in real time as input information is gathered and modified by the user or input device.
  • a rangefinder such as the one described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,654,029, which incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, may include various environmental and positional sensors, such as inclinometers, fiber optic gyroscopes, temperature sensors, and the like. (The '029 patent is assigned to Leupold and Stevens, Inc., which is also the assignee and applicant for the present application). These or other sensors may provide input that dynamically changes the ballistic solution in real time, and thereby updates the position of the aiming mark 390 in response to continuously changing input information.
  • FIG. 10 shows another embodiment of a ballistic software application user interface 396 outputting in numerical form (MOA) the elevation aiming adjustment amount 360 and the windage aiming adjustment amount 364 shown in FIG. 9 .
  • the user interface 396 shows that a user has selected the Calculate Ballistic Solution checkbox 182 mentioned previously with reference to FIG. 5 .
  • the selection of the checkbox 182 causes the software to also present another spinner menu, which is a Target Range menu 400 that allows the user to input a predetermined range to a target.
  • the user has entered in the Target Range menu 400 the range measurement 374 ( FIG. 9 ) of 1,300 yards.
  • the selection of the checkbox 182 also causes the software to perform the methods 280 and 320 so as to present in an Elevation (MOA) field 402 and a Windage (MOA) field 404 , respectively, an indication to a user of the iteratively calculated 49.72 MOA elevation and 9.72 MOA windage aiming adjustment amounts.
  • a field 405 outputs a measure of true ballistic range (TBR), also known as equivalent horizontal range, as described in the incorporated '029 patent.
  • TBR true ballistic range
  • table rows from “1100” yards to “1350” yards may be yellow in color to indicate that a bullet would be transitioning from supersonic speed (i.e., above about Mach 1.2, as calculated according to the target conditions of menu tab 122 ( FIG. 3 )) to subsonic speed (i.e., below about Mach 0.8, again at altitude).
  • supersonic speed i.e., above about Mach 1.2, as calculated according to the target conditions of menu tab 122 ( FIG. 3 )
  • subsonic speed i.e., below about Mach 0.8, again at altitude.
  • FIG. 10 shows that a row 406 beginning with “1050” yards has a Velocity calculation of 1,355.4 ft/sec (Mach 1.21), which is supersonic. Therefore, this row may be shown in white.
  • a row 408 beginning with “1400” has a Velocity calculation of 1,122.8 ft/sec (Mach 1.00), which is a first row 408 at which a bullet is calculated to travel at subsonic air speeds. Therefore, this row may be red in color. The rows that follow the red-colored row may be yellow in color to indicate that the bullet, while still in the transonic range, would have diminishing flight stability.
  • various colors or graphical indicators may be used to express the supersonic, transonic, and subsonic velocity indications. For example, supersonic could be shown with green-colored rows or a supersonic icon depiction.
  • FIG. 11 is a screen image capture 410 of the real-time ballistics system software user interface including an output display section tab 414 entitled “Bullet Path (Inches)” with contents in the form of a graph 416 plotting a calculated bullet path 418 versus increasing ranges 420 along an x-axis 424 , and indicating with lines 430 (e.g., yellow lines) ranges 432 at which a bullet's calculated velocity is determined to produce transonic air speeds.
  • lines 430 e.g., yellow lines
  • ranges 432 at which a bullet's calculated velocity is determined to produce transonic air speeds.
  • the graph also indicates with a line 434 (e.g., a red colored line) a range 436 at which the bullet's calculated velocity is determined to transition to a subsonic air speed.
  • the aiming mark 390 of FIG. 9 has displayed near its side a calculated velocity measurement 446 of a bullet at a calculated point of impact at the target 372 .
  • the velocity measurement 446 or aiming mark 390 is superimposed (e.g., rendered on a display) in the field of view 370 so that it may also be used to determine whether the bullet is transonic or supersonic.
  • the velocity measurement 446 or aiming mark 390 may be green to indicate supersonic, yellow to indicate a transition to transonic, and red to indicate an airspeed that is below subsonic.
  • Other graphical icons or indicators are also within the scope of this disclosure.
  • FIG. 12 shows another set of spinner menus 444 in a menu tab 446 entitled “Sight-in Conditions.” These spinner menus 444 include identical menus as those described previously with reference to FIG. 3 . In addition, the menus 444 include an offset menu 448 that may be used to generate ballistic information for target loads relative to another load's superelevation angle.
  • a sight-in offset value (e.g., a value entered in the menu 444 ) may be used to achieve one or more of the following: (1) allowing a user (e.g., a shooter) to setup a sight-in offset that occurs during a sight-in process of a new target load, in which the sight-in offset is relative to an original sight-in load; (2) allowing for independent selection between the sight-in load and the target load; (3) allowing the user to enter in a sight-in superelevation angle directly so as to bypass a sight-in process superelevation angle calculation of the RTBS algorithm; (4) allowing the user to bypass the sight-in process of the RTBS algorithm and re-use the previous superelevation angle found from and associated with a different load; or (5) allowing the user to perform a sight-in process at a target range that is different from a desired true-zero range.
  • a shooter may configure ballistics information for the sight-in process independently from the ballistics information used during target calculations, e.g., when the sight-in load is different from a current load being used during target calculations.
  • the shooter may simply enter an offset amount into the offset menu 448 of the menu tab 446 , which is then used to generate ballistics calculations output 450 presented in the Drop Table menu tab 192 .
  • a bullet path 452 at 200 yards i.e., the true zero
  • the ballistics calculations output 450 thereby provides reference points of an actual bullet path at various other ranges, in which the reference points are shown relative to an original bullet load used during a sight-in process.
  • a shooter may want to sight-in their weapon using one cartridge, but then want to shoot another cartridge without re-zeroing (sighting-in) for that new cartridge.
  • some hunters use multiple bullet loads (usually of the same caliber but having different bullet weights) without re-zeroing after they switch between loads.
  • some users of Leupold and Stevens, Inc.'s Custom Dial Systems (CDS) may carry multiple CDS dials that are each developed for a particular load of ammunition.
  • the user can simply specify those differences into a ballistics system to receive ballistics calculations for the bullet information used during target calculations.
  • This implementation is particularly useful in a rangefinder, range-finding riflescope, spotting scope, or other ranging devices because a shooter will receive, for example, holdover or holdunder adjustment information relative to the sight-in load.
  • the user may elect to carry one CDS dial because the ballistics calculations would account for relevant offsets between the CDS (sight-in) load and the load actually being fired.
  • the shooter may seek to override an automatic sight-in process by entering an actual super-elevation angle to be used during the process that calculates a ballistic solution. Again, this override may be used when bullet information of the load being fired is different from that of load used during the sight-in process.
  • the shooter may seek to override the automatic sight-in process by selecting whether the superelevation angle is to be computed. In other words, during the ordinary automatic sight-in process, a superelevation angle is computed. But by bypassing that calculation, a previously calculated angle would be used instead. This is useful because an angle from a previous load would be applied to the calculations for the current target load.
  • a shooter does not have a true-zero target available (e.g., a target located at a 200-yard true zero) by which to sight-in (“zero”) their weapon, but the shooter does have a target available at another range (e.g., a 100-yard range) and knows how much offset occurs at the available target range.
  • a true-zero target available e.g., a target located at a 200-yard true zero
  • the shooter does have a target available at another range (e.g., a 100-yard range) and knows how much offset occurs at the available target range.
  • the user may enter this amount into the offset menu 448 of the menu tab 446 , which is then used to generate ballistics calculations output showing a bullet path that still intersects the true zero, even though a target at the true-zero range is not available.

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